Dinah dinah show us your leg

Song

"Dinah, Dinah Show us your Leg" is an American bawdy song.

The formula is a descending scale: "Rich girl [does something,] Poor girl [does something else], my girl don't [do whatever the other two do, usually with comic effect.].

The twentieth century versions are possibly the result of merging a minstrel song with "Coming Round the Mountain".

In "Negro Singers' Own Book" (c 1846) there is a song about animals:

Mr. Coon he is a mighty man,

He carries a bushy tail,

He steals old massa's corn at night,

And husks it on a rail.

De mink he is a mighty thing,

He rambles in de dark;

The only ting disturbs his peace

Is my old bull dog's bark.

By 1915 this had become a comment on the fashion tastes of white women:

Well a white lady wears a hobble skirt,

A yaller gal tries to do the same,

But a poor black gal wears a Mary Jane,

But she's hobbling just the same.

Well a white lady sleeps in a feather bed,

A yaller gal tries to do the same,

But a poor black gal makes a pallet on de floor,

But she's sleeping just the same.

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